Buggy-shaft support.



Patented Oct. 22, MIL

No. 684,89l.

C. D. WHITE. BUGGY SHAFT SUPPORT. (Application filed June 17, 1901.

(No Model.)

init a STATES PATENT O FICE.

OULLEN-D. WHITE, OF GLEESON STATION, TENNESSEE.

BUGGY-SHAFT su PYPO RT.

SPECIFIGATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,891, dated October 22, 1901.

Application filed June 17, 1901. Serial No. 64,901. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CULLEN D. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gleeson Station, in the county of Weakley and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Buggy-Shaft Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to buggies andsimilar vehicles, and has for its object the production of a device for supporting the thills or shafts when not in use; and it consists in-a device attached to the vehicle adjacent to and ca pable of being protruded into the path of some part of the thills or shafts when the latter are elevated to support them in that position, as hereinafter shown and described,and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the front part of the runhing-gear of a vehicle and a portion of the thills or shafts with my improvement attached thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section on the line a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the device detached.

The device may be attached to any form of buggy or similar vehicle with slight and unimportant modifications, and for the purpose of illustration I have shown it in the drawings applied to the running-gear of an ordinary buggy, 1 representing the forward axle, 2 the spring, 3 the spring-bar, 4 and 5 the thills coupled to the axle by the clips 6 7, with the cross-bar 8 for supporting the whiffletree. Attached to some convenientpart of the running-gear, preferably to the springbar 3, is a standard 9, and to this standard is pivoted, near one end, at 10, a bar 11, the bar thus being free to swing transversely of the Vehicle. Projecting from the standard 9 is a clip or keeper 12, adapted to embrace the bar when in its upward position and afiording a support thereto, so that the strains will not come entirely upon the pivot 10. The bar 11 will be located so that when turned in position to engage the keeper 12 it will project across the path of some part of the thills or shafts when the latter are in their elevated position, and thus hold them elevated, and when turned in the opposite position will permit the parts of the thills or shafts which are to be engaged by the bar to pass the bar,

so that after the thills or shaftsareraised into their upright position the bar 11 may be set in front of some part thereof to hold them upright. In practice the standard 9 is preferably attached vertically to the spring-bar 3 at one side of the point where the spring 2 is attached,'so that when not in use the bar will be horizontal and when in use willstand' vertically and engage the cross-bar S of the thills or shafts, as shown. The standard 9 maybe connected to the bar 3 or other part of the vehicle by any suitable means; but preferably the standard will be formed with an arm 13 branching therefrom and embracing the bar 3 and with the lower end of both members 9 13 provided with screw-threaded terminals to receive and support a clip-plate 14 beneath the spring-bar, as shown. By this simple means an adjustable device is pro-' duced which will efiectually do the work for which it is designed and at the same time be readily attachable and detachable and by slight modifications may be adapted to buggies and other vehicles of various kinds. It is a very simple, cheap, and convenient attachment, easily applied and as easily re moved, and will not in any manner detract from the appearance of the vehicle or prove detrimental in any other respect. 1

While in the drawings the shaft-support has been shown applied to the spring-bar or bolster at one side of the center,it will be understood that it is the intention to place the same wherever convenient or found to be most efiicient or wherever it is adapted to perform its function without interference with the application of the other partsoftlie vehicle.

What I claim as new is- 1. A device of the class described comprising a standard provided at its lower portion with a clip adapted to engage the spring-bar of a vehicle, the bar 11 pivoted to the stand ard and arranged to swing vertically in a plane transversely of the vehicle and to project across the path of the thills or shafts when the latter are elevated, and a rigid keeper mounted on the standard and arranged to receive the bar when the latter is in its engaging position, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a vehicle, of a standard, a bar pivoted to said standard, an

arm extending from said standard at a point In testimony that I claim the foregoing as between the ends thereof and codperating my own I have hereto affixed my signature in with the lower portion of the same to form a the presence of two witnesses.

clip and a clip-plate engaging said standard CULLEN D. \VHITE.

and arm and forming means for the att-aeh- I Vitnesses: lnent of said standard to said vehicle, sub- GUY ALEXANDER, st-antiaily as shown and described. V. O. DISSON. 

